Mrs. Ruland's U.S. History Class Project
Anti- Lynching Campaign
By: Rebecca and Adrienne
This web page introduces the crusading for anti-lynching campaigns. Lynching was the A wide variety of web sites are offered here for all of your educational needs. Lynching never started or ended on a specific date but history has proved that a certain mob of persecutors have inflicted many years of torture on innocent victims. A known group of persecutors such as the Ku Klux Klan were involved in many lynchings of innocent people who were not “good enough” for the white society. These victims were then hung or lynched, without due process of law.
Logo courtesy of: http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynching.htm
African American History: Ida B. Wells- Barnett
This page is about Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and includes a brief section about her and anti-lynching campaigns. Ida B. Wells- Barnett was a writer, who expressed her discomfort about lynching through writing. Ida B. Wells- Barnett also was an organizer for anti- lynching societies, and she would sometimes lecture at meetings for the anti- lynching societies.
This is a great site that talks about everything that has to due with anti- lynching campaigns. It starts off talking about the NAACP developing the Anti-Lynching Committee in 1916. This page also goes through the books that the NAACP published, and some the statistics that were published in various newspapers. It also talks about women that were petitioning for anti- lynching rights through journalism, like Ida B. Wells- Barnett. The Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People was created by aggressive women campaigners.
This page is helpful, because it talks about how after the Dyer Anti- Lynching Bill was defeated in the 1920s, Walter White, executive secretary of the NAACP, tried again to pass legislation in the 1930s. In 1933, Walter White tested the New Deals commitment to African American civil rights. Finally, it talks about the new plan created by Edward P. Costigan of Colorado and Robert F. Wagner, and how it eventually failed.
Letter To The Anti- Lynching Bureau
This page talks about how in 1901, 135 humans were killed through lynching. The people that were committing the lynchings were Christians, and usually civilized. Also the lynchings that were happing were being publicized in many ways, like through newspapers. This letter was from Ida B. Wells- Barnett, who was very active in the Anti- Lynching Campaign.
Document Based Question: Southern Women In The Anti- Lynching Campaign
This site is a little lacking in information, but what is has, is informative for an overlook at anti- lynching campaigns. In 1892, 230 African Americans were lynched. The people of the South did not try to stop lynching, because they thought that proved that white people were better than African Americans. In the 1980s it was mostly African American women, trying to stop lynching, however in the 1920s, white women started to petition against lynching too.
Duluth 's Lynching, a Sad Moment in History
This source recounts the history of several different lynchings in different areas of the country. Although the information uses statistical data, and is vivid in the re-telling of the events, the site does not give the reader any information about anti-lynching campaigns or help to possible victims in the future.
Spartacus Educational - Lynching
This is an amazing source for many reasons. It presents the readers with a lucid definition of lynching and offers several different excerpts from well-known people on the topic of lynching. The site also gives a lot of detail about anti-lynching campaigns and explains how some powerful people (people in Congress) tried many times to end lynching but the pleads were overruled. To add to this, the site offers some pictures and books for more information in addition to some shocking statistics.
Different sections by different authors make this site a great one. The first section is about lynching with some statistics while the next section goes a little further into history and explains how over time lynching was evolved and what we did to try and stop it. Finally the last section explains to the reader what, how and who helped make a stand against lynching and formed some strong anti-lynching campaigns.
Although this site does include anti-lynching campaigns, it mostly describes the strong courageous woman who crusaded against the many lynchings. Mary B. Talbert is the original crusader against lynching and helped many other woman join the fight against lynching.
Last updated March 28, 2008
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